In my family tree I find Scots, English, Welsh, Germans, and Swiss. From England there were Quakers, Puritans, and even Puritans who were the sons of Cavaliers (go figure), Some fought in our revolutionary war, some protested the war, and some were loyalists. At least one ancestor came over on the Mayflower, possible another. My grandmother even stated that we might even have some Ojibwa bloodlines(I can neither prove or disprove this) What does this make me, just a plain old "Heinz 57 Varieties" American. I try not to make any detrimental remarks about any ethnicity as I may find out that I am one of them.

Somebody mentioned the Mormon web site FamilySearch.com. The LDS have the largest single collection of genealogy materials in the world at their Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It is open to the public, free. It is chock full of out of print books, church and government records from around the world. There are always plenty of volunteers around to help you find things. I would recommend it to any serious genealogist. My wife and I try to go for a week every two or three years.

Grandpa's fathers name is the same as his, hes a Jr. John Felix Huffman (jr). grandpa was born in Richmond Virginia. I know that my great grandma's first name was Grace, thats about all I know. Grandpa is still alive, I know his sisters names. Now Grandma's side her name is Garrenton, she was born in Portsmouth Virginia. I've already linked her brothers to her, but as far as going up on her tree, all I know is that gr grandma's name was Luna Elizabeth. dont know her maiden name. About all ive found about the name Huffman is that it is German for one who works a hide or hind of land ( hind equaling 150 acres). Cant get anywhere on the name Garrenton. I mainly want to get down to the roots to find out the family crests, coat of arms information. I want to be able to at least start at my grandparents with both crests? coats? so that my kids will know where they came from.